psrock said:
My mom is never going to IGN, VGCHARTZ, EDGE to get reviews of games. She will go to walmart, look for the most fun looking game to her and buy it. What should happen is hardcore site should just do a preview of these games, no scores, just an idea since they can't tell if it's good or not. |
You'd probably be surprised who reads these sites ...
Even though my sister has been playing videogames since we got the Colecovision in the early 80s, since she primarily played handheld games after the SNES because she didn’t like the kinds of games that were mostly on consoles (with the exception of social games like Mario Kart and what not) she would be considered a "Casual" gamer by today’s standards. While she couldn’t care less about Grand Theft Auto, Halo or God of War, she is very well versed in the games she is interested in; and she does read many of the popular websites to find out information about games she is interested in.
There has been evidence since the Gameboy Color was in its prime that women gamers was a growing demographic that was becoming more and more important, but rather than trying to understand them most developers and reviewers treated them as second class citizens. The unfortunate side effect of this is that many of them have become so accustomed to low scores that they mostly ignore them and read the review instead; which does make the score meaningless for them.
